Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Information Resources

1. Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), at http://www.w3.org/wai. A major activity of the World Wide Web Consortium, the WAI is a broad collaboration among industry, academic research, and members of the disability community to define standards and techniques for maximizing the accessibility of Web-based materials for all users.

2. WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (including checklist and techniques documents), at http://www.w3.org/tr/wcag10. These Guidelines are the closest thing to a universally accepted standard for accessible Web content (though this position may be challenged by the U.S. government’s Section 508 standards; see below). (Note: the WAI site also includes useful information about use of color, etc.)

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